Major DDoS Attacks Are Booming, But US No Longer the Most Targeted Country

Rob Pegoraro· Aug 11, 2026 · 4:23 PM UTC ·3 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 3 views

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The San Francisco firm provides free basic DDoS protection and sells higher-end plans to sites that might require added defenses; it’s become an enormously influential interface layer for the entire web. At least this year does not seem to have set new records for the size of individual attacks after 2025, when the record kept ratcheting up: 5.6Tbps in January, 7.3Tbps in June, 11.5 Tbps in September, 29.7Tbps and then 31.4Tbps in December.Over the first half of 2026, April was the cruelest month. Turkey took third place in that quarter, which featured the NATO summit in its capital, Ankara.

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▪The San Francisco firm provides free basic DDoS protection and sells higher-end plans to sites that might require added defenses; it’s become an enormously influential interface layer for the entire web.
▪At least this year does not seem to have set new records for the size of individual attacks after 2025, when the record kept ratcheting up: 5.6Tbps in January, 7.3Tbps in June, 11.5 Tbps in September, 29.7Tbps and then 31.4Tbps in December.
▪Turkey took third place in that quarter, which featured the NATO summit in its capital, Ankara.

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Cloudflare has now racked up 25 years of regularly publishing data on the distributed denial-of-service attacks it works to thwart, and a Tuesday report marking what we have to think of as a tarnished silver anniversary reveals they’re bigger and badder than ever.Researchers quantify these coordinated assaults on servers in terms of how much data an attacker can throw at one to stymie or stop its operations, and those per-second figures increasingly feature terabits instead of gigabits or mere megabits.

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